reporter: westland cares also provides gift cards, funding for activities, and even scholarship money. vouchers for students to buy new books is one of the principles favorite parts of the program. >> we ask students to get to gifts and a student says i have seven brothers and sisters and we say you get seven gifts. reporter: for the family that started this, natasha wrote a letter nominating them for the maryland statewide school board -- involvement program. which they won. >> i was really -- i started crying because it was that touching. reporter:>> i want to do something like that. reporter: for daughter rachel is exempt of eyes volunteerism that the curriculum and stresses. leon: nice to know we have folks like that. alison: nice program. leon: two women who shared an unbreakable bond as cousins are celebrating and even stronger bond in later life as mother and daughter. muriel clayton has adopted 76er old mary smith, her cousin. clayton took her into the home after a family tragedy over 60 years ago. she wanted to adopt or a long time ago until smith's biological mother died thi